Tag: EU

Britain’s economic welfare is heavily dependent on its trade within the EU. Indeed, it was principally for the economic benefits of being in the free trade area that Britain took up membership in 1973. Since then, the British economy has undergone transformation that has seen London rise to the summit of the financial sector. It …

The decision of the people of the UK to leave the European Union was somewhat unexpected and wholly transformative, one way or another. Political circumstances, including the scale of the democratic mandate, dictates that there can be no backsliding from ‘’Brexit’’. The challenge is instead to establish the path forward to …

Edinburgh Students Protest in London (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Students_Protest_in_London.JPG)

Turnout amongst younger voters in the EU referendum was much lower than their parents and grandparents. The most generous figure for the turnout of 18-24 year olds was the LSE’s 64%. If accurate, it seems more young people were engaged by the question of Brexit than any recent general …

A number of British people who voted to leave in the EU referendum did so because they felt the system no longer works for them. These people live in areas that have not benefited from globalisation in the same way cities such as London have. Now these areas no longer see …

It is staggering how much British politicians, private actors and public institutions were caught off guard by the EU referendum result. The lack of a clear Brexit plan became evident almost immediately after the result came in, and exasperated the degree to which the British economy suffered initially from a significant degree of financial …

Polling Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010

It has long been the case that the over 40s have turned out to vote in larger numbers than their younger counterparts. While research shows that 64% of 18-24 year olds turned out to vote (a figure much higher than the claimed 36% by Skydata), this number should have been much higher …

Having been relegated to the sidelines of political debate, the rise of right-wing populist parties and movements in Europe has begun to attract more and deserved attention. For some time, this populism seemed to be concentrated in the adolescent democracies of central and eastern Europe. What’s more, several years ago …

As migrants landed in Germany and Finland on April 6, Der Spiegel praised Angela Merkel for making an active refugee policy for the first time since her open borders rhetoric. Arguing that the plan sends out ‘the right signal’, it said the deal would send the ‘message that those who are really in need of …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is by nature progressive, to be built upon and scaled up. As 2015 draws close to an end, development experts globally are exploring new sets of goals. A more suitable approach may be tackling the challenges discovered and scaling up on MDG …